Virtual Boy was cartridge based, these flash carts are cool because they have e-ink displays in them so that you can load custom label images to see what game you have flashed.
Wow, I’ve never heard of a flash cartridge with e-ink display. That’s awesome! Is Virtual Boy the only system with them? If not, where can they be found for purchase?
These specific Virtual Boy carts aren’t being made any more, unfortunately. You can still find them for insane prices on eBay though.
At the time, I think these were the only ones that did something like this. Now, if you Google around I believe you can find a couple other projects out there for other systems that have some sort of display built into the cartridge so it can display a game label. Not sure how many are finished products you can buy, or how many are open source projects that you would need to DIY.
Virtual Boy was cartridge based, these flash carts are cool because they have e-ink displays in them so that you can load custom label images to see what game you have flashed.
This is what an original cart looks like
Wow, I’ve never heard of a flash cartridge with e-ink display. That’s awesome! Is Virtual Boy the only system with them? If not, where can they be found for purchase?
These specific Virtual Boy carts aren’t being made any more, unfortunately. You can still find them for insane prices on eBay though.
At the time, I think these were the only ones that did something like this. Now, if you Google around I believe you can find a couple other projects out there for other systems that have some sort of display built into the cartridge so it can display a game label. Not sure how many are finished products you can buy, or how many are open source projects that you would need to DIY.